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单词 non-communicating
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non-communicatingadj.

Brit. /ˌnɒnkəˈmjuːnᵻkeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌnɑnkəˈmjunəˌkeɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, communicating adj.
Etymology: < non- prefix + communicating adj.
1. Christian Church. That does not receive, or involve receiving, communion; now usually in non-communicating attendance. Also: refraining from taking communion at the services of an established church (historical).
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > [adjective]
unhouseled1532
unreceiving1566
uncommunicant1600
non-communicating1691
non-communicant1866
1691 R. Baxter Of National Churches xiv. 60 All the Parish Churches are to distinguish Communicating Members from Non-communicating Inhabitants.
1861 J. E. Vaux Presence Whole Congreg. Holy Euch. 5 Such non-communicating attendance was agreeable to..those divines who had the chief share in the construction of the Book of Common Prayer.
1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 440/2 Lee next became incumbent of St. John's, Aberdeen, but introduced non-communicating attendance, then almost unknown in the Anglican church.
1986 New Dict. Liturgy & Worship 283/2 The experience of being excluded from communion fellowship..can be distressing, especially for those who have no tradition of ‘non-communicating attendances’ at the eucharist.
2. Not offering access from one place, area of interest, etc., to another.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective]
unspeakinga1382
speechless1390
mutec1400
dumb1406
silenta1425
peaceablec1425
secretc1440
of few wordsa1500
tongue-tied1529
mum1532
closec1540
strait-laced1546
tongue-dumb1556
incommunicable1568
sparing1568
inconversable1577
retentive1599
wordless1604
mumbudget1622
uncommunicable1628
monastica1631
word-bound1644
on (also upon) the reserve1655
strait-mouthed1664
oyster-like1665
incommunicative1670
mumchance1681
speechless1726
taciturnous1727
tongue-tacked1727
monosyllabic1735
silentish1737
untalkative1739
silentious1749
buttoned-up1767
taciturn1771
close as wax1772
untittletattling1779
reticent1825
voiceless1827
say-nothing1838
unremonstrant1841
still1855
unvocal1858
inexpansive186.
short-tongued1864
non-communicating1865
tight-lipped1876
unworded1886
chup1896
tongue-bound1906
shut-mouthed1936
zip-lipped1943
shtum1958
1865 Spectator 23 Dec. 1431/2 If the ship is built of non-communicating cells, one cell may fill and all the others remain..water-tight.
1894 Philos. Rev. 3 61 A real metaphysical dualism would cleave the universe in two, leaving two absolutely non-communicating worlds.
1917 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God iii. 57 It is impossible to treat the world of religious belief and the world of fact..as if they were two non-communicating spheres.
1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. xlix. 1132/1 The disease is termed noncommunicating..because the connection between the ventricular and subarachnoid spaces has been reduced or obliterated.
2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck viii. 206 The economy of the body practised by Mangogul's ring makes the body into an assemblage of non-communicating parts.
3. Not able or willing to communicate verbally, etc., with others.
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the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > speaking > not speaking
unspeakinga1382
non-speaking1850
non-communicating1960
1960 K. Amis New Maps of Hell (1961) i. 20 Some excellent stories have been written about non-communicating aliens, from The War of the Worlds onwards.
1972 Where May–June 158/2 The parent who protested that her LEA was sending her non-communicating child 200 miles away from home and so she would not be able to visit, when the child could not write or use a phone, had a real case.
1991 D. Donald Stud. in Ezra Pound (BNC) 263 The circumstance of the two writers being noncommunicating neighbours in Rapallo is too piquant not to be instructive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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